The white crane stretched out his hand and slashed across Qinghe's jade neck, and then drew four inches down, his fingers in circles.

"In other words, half of the people in the world have this, why are men so obsessed? Even the husband is difficult to get rid of! Qinghe was still lying down and didn't move, but he pulled his clothes, revealing a little red.

"What a complicated question!" Shira-chan Crane laughed self-deprecatingly.

If it is placed in modern times, Bai Minghe can have at least four answers, and can also tell a story about the most beautiful milk + Fang Helen, the beautiful love of the Trojan horse and the tragic battlefield.

But this is Da Ming, and Bai Minghe really can't answer.

In the end, the white crane gave an answer: desire.

When it comes to desire, many people are obsessed not with what half of the people on the planet have, but with what everyone on the planet can have, but there are many people who want more. That's ......

Silver!

That's right, silver is so fascinating, it's more crazy than power. And while you have silver, you will also have great power. When you get great power, you can have more silver.

Of course, this is only the lowest kind of greed, at least according to those who are counting the silver.

Because their silver is not used to spend time and drink, but to let the scholars regain power, Fujian is not for those who are soldiers, those who are illiterate untouchables. Everything is inferior, only reading is high.

In the entire Ming officialdom, many people were arrested and degraded because of the corruption case.

But there are two provinces that have not moved, one is Guangdong and the other is Fujian.

In Guangdong, Bai Minghe has already killed a batch, there is no need to move again, if he moves again, it will hurt the foundation of the imperial court. So Guangdong did not move.

The reason why Fujian was not moved was. Fujian is in the period of large-scale construction, and the number of officials everywhere is insufficient, so a group of people were selected to go to Little Luzon, and the whole Fujian was in chaos, so it slowed down, and then waited for the officials transferred from the capital to be in place. Once you're familiar with the job, look at the situation.

If the original officials knew their mistakes and corrected them, it would be over.

Contrarily......

In the current situation, instead of changing, it is intensifying.

In the next few days, Bai Minghe was dealing with these official documents, and the thick pile of materials was like a small mountain, and Dongchang was really ruthless about who to deal with, and even what posture he used to go to the toilet several times a day would be recorded.

Wang Ao has arrived in Nanjing. Reported in Nanjing.

Even if the capital has already been appointed, the evaluation of officials in the provinces south of the Yangtze River is under the control of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials. Wang Ao was only a dozen miles away from Bai Minghe, but he did not go to Baima Pavilion to see Bai Minghe, nor did he contact anyone from Dongchang.

This is not to avoid suspicion, but Wang Ao wants to use his own eyes to see the facts, so he is a knife for Bai Minghe, and he must also know how to use this knife, and things beyond his own bottom limit must not be done.

Wang Ao only stayed in Nanjing for one day. Just take the boat and head south.

It only takes three days to get to Fuzhou by taking a big ship from Nanjing. Even if there is a storm and wind, you can definitely get to Fuzhou in three and a half days. Daming already has Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou and other passenger ships with fixed departures, from Nanjing to the later Ningbo Port, and then to Fuzhou is less than 2,000 miles.

Going down the Yangtze River, it is easy to travel 700 miles in a day and night to the sea. With the sail set up at a speed of 10 knots per hour, an ordinary passenger ship can run to more than 800 miles of waterway and 2,000 miles of waterway in a day and night, and three days is the standard sailing time, which will also count the ship that stops at Ningbo Port for two hours.

Wang Ao did not sit in officialdom. Instead, he took his men on this kind of passenger ship.

One is to experience the folk customs, and the other is that he is also a low-key official. At present, the so-called hanging the flag does not have to pay taxes has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, no matter what kind of ship, that is, the official ship with goods must have a saying, whether it is for personal use, or for sale, there are also restrictions on the quantity.

"My lord, there is a rebuilt pier over there, but instead of using the inlet, it was built next to the forest." The subordinates pointed to Wang Ao, but Wang Ao still didn't find it, until he was almost out of sight, and then he vaguely saw the small pier.

"This kind of dock is really weird!"

"It is estimated that a private boat went to sea!" The subordinate whispered.

Wang Ao shook his head: "Don't say anything, we will make a conclusion after verification!" ”

The subordinate really didn't say much, but his eyes still glanced at the wharf in the back bay of the woods, and the wharf was obviously already loaded with small boats.

When the Ming Sea was banned, there were also many such private docks, and the government could not control them.

Wang Ao sighed in his heart, and said in his heart that you, the Fujian Political Secretary, really broke the rules this time. There are also rules in officialdom, and this sea trade thing is said to be white-named, but it is long live. The incorruptible silver has been distributed, which can be regarded as a reward from Long Live to the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

And this incorruptible silver is naturally earned from the sea trade.

Who will do it in private, even if he thinks that Bai Minghe will not dare to kill people, but the Ming Emperor will not kill people?

Wang Ao even believed that Bai Minghe already had the will of the Ming Emperor in his hands, and these people who broke the rules would definitely overturn the Han Dynasty. I thought of what Xiao Dian said to him before leaving Nanjing, Xiao Dian said: "The silver on the dock is not enough!" ”

Nanjing's household department may have a poor ability to do things, but this Xiao Rong, who was semi-exiled from the capital to Nanjing, is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

It is estimated that this time, someone may want to fall to the ground.

Wang Ao stood at the bow of the boat and watched that the ship had slowed down and slowly approached the bay area, and tidied up his clothes. Thinking in his heart, he just let himself, the governor of Fuguang, stand upright.

At this time in Nanjing City, Xiao Di had already come to the White Horse Pavilion, in the study of the white crane.

"Xiao Shangshu is so restless!" The white crane held it steadily, slowly fiddling with the tea set.

Xiao Di stared at the teapot for a while, and then said: "There is only so much water in this pot, and the four teacups are just full, but if you get six cups, I'm afraid they won't be full." ”

"It's useless to drink tea and think about so much gossip. Last year's full account was settled, and that's what matters right now. ”

Xiao Rong watched Bai Minghe pour tea, just filled four cups, and without waiting for Bai Minghe to stretch out his hand, he drank all the water in the four cups, and then said: "This pot of water is four cups." The official is going to write long live, and he wants to manage the workshop taxes in Nanjing and other places, and if you compare the two, you will know how much worse it is on the dock! ”

Bai Minghe smiled and filled the teapot with water, and then found a glass to remake the tea for himself.

"I said Lao Xiao, if you want to get rich, I have a way!"

As soon as he heard Bai Minghe's words, Xiao Rong was furious, slapped the table and stood up: "Bai Minghe, I don't want to say such insulting words." I, Xiao Rong, am deeply favored by the emperor, and I have been loyal to the monarch to serve the country......"

Without waiting for Xiao Rong to finish sighing, Bai Minghe said directly: "Wei Guogong has seventy five hundred fast boats that have been retreated, and they were originally intended to be used as inland river transfer ships. But these are sailboats without oars, and the reconstruction of inland rivers costs a lot. These ships are fast, and if you recruit some veterans and bring tax collectors to lurk along the coast, you can naturally tell the difference, and those ships are not marked! ”

When Xiao Rong heard this, he became interested.

Shirakawaru continued: "The bulk of tax evasion is certainly not on the wharf, but on the coast. Don't touch those private docks, just let them build, and you can't see how big they are. Just take care of the ship that comes out of there, arrest people, and deduct goods. How many goods, double the fine, if you don't feel happy with double, it's good to double five. ”

"This, you can't cure it!"

"Old Xiao, when you go to sea, you naturally have to have a ship to pick up the goods, you can ......" Bai Minghe made a killing gesture.

Xiao Rong shook his head again: "On this sea, it's too difficult to catch a few boats. ”

"Well, let's think about it differently. How many kinds of regular boats go to sea on this pier? ”

Xiao Di thought for a while: "The first one, the large sea class." It's all sea transportation, and these are all official ships, so they can't be faked at all. The second type is directional transport vessels, such as ships that constantly travel between designated places to pull ore or hemp material. These are also old ships bought by the big merchants from the sailors. The third category is smuggled cargo ships. ”

When it came to the smuggling cargo ship, Xiao Rong used his brain.

Because most of the time the loading on this type of ship is not cargo, there are installed parts, and there are assembly materials. Because it is not the main goods that are pulled, there is no need to pay taxes in many cases. Most of them are hired by firms, negotiate freight rates, and ship them on ships.

Dozens of hemp presses, which are transported on a large ship in Manila, can't even occupy a third of the space.

This kind of cargo is troublesome to unload, and the big ship is a waste of time on the dock, so it is not cost-effective on both sides. Many ships of several hundred materials are pulled down and then slowly unloaded at the small berth in the corner of the wharf.

"Look at the empty position of that ship going to sea, not too much, more than 200 stone is worth chasing. Stalk, then arrest. ”

Shirana Crane gave an idea.

Bai Minghe believed that there would be no problems with the transport fleet of the sailors, the military law was harsh, and no sergeant would engage in such a ghost with a merchant. Those benefits are far higher than the bounties they receive if they don't transport them carefully. To paraphrase a modern phrase, the cost of crime is too high for these sergeants to be worth the trifle.

Of course, the sergeants brought some small goods privately, and they couldn't add a few private goods to a boat, which was harmless.

It is nothing more than to use silk or porcelain, or some high-end goods of the Ming Dynasty, to go to Little Luzon to exchange for some tobacco leaves, or some local specialties, and then bring them back. Basically, it's not for sale, most of it is digested internally by the various guards of the water division. Bai Minghe knows about this matter, and he doesn't want to care about it, as long as he controls it within a certain degree.

The fleet of directional transport, with no possibility of carrying smuggled cargo, travels back and forth between the two fixed ports every day.

The goods pulled are always a kind of goods, and once there is an entrainment that is too obvious, no one is willing to take risks. Again, the cost of crime is too high. (To be continued......)